I enjoyed this very much. An ordinary drive, which is very special during these days of stay at home! So - I see lots of school buses. Are the schools there on all different schedules like ours are, due to Covid, or did you take a late lunch? Here in Upstate New York the kids have half-days combined with Zoom classes, different kids on alternating days, etc., so the buses are out at all different times.
Yes!They might be drooling all night.The coop might get soggy.
If the chickens knew they were down there, oh so, so close, it would drive them crazy. They would make a project of getting to them...they might destroy the coop in the process! Certainly would be a boredom buster for winter.
I honestly don't know. It was about 1:30 so way too early for a normal dismissal. I have no school age children so I have no idea what schedules are these days. In the days of field trips Hershey is mobbed with buses for those as well. This I cannot explain.
I can see little saws in use.Yes!
Like a Chicken's 11 heist. 
When they were little, and sometimes now too, one chick would start pecking at a speck on the brooder wall. It would get another's attention, and they'd pitch in. Then another, and another. Soon all four were pecking at this one spot. It was a team effort!I can see little saws in use.
I have spent my day applying what weather sealing I can to the trailer... I’ve broken out the big guns for the skylight... I’m using E6000 glue this year instead of white school glue so the bubble wrap is staying up for good! Four hours late and a full 6 hours after my reminder/wake up phone call, BIL finally showed up to help me tow the old lunchroom trailer out for the chickens... hopefully this will solve my roosting issues here for tomorrow night.
It worked! And it’s amazing. I wish my border collie wasn’t so high strung. Several of my birds, especially this year’s babies, would love to cuddle with her.
Yikesers!
That is definitely a bigger mess than my roosting situation. At least yours wasn't too be together though.Oh my... @BY Bob you are having quite the time of it at roosting, but I don’t believe you will ever give up on the girls, no matter how naughty they are! I too, am having my “winter preparations“, although there are no pool closures here!
Last night I had to enlist DH (again) to help put the littles up. Dean, Cass, and their 11 ladies had roosted in their pallet sized chickshaw coop. Sammy managed to convince 23 of his young ladies they should join him in there too. 34 hens/pullets and three roosters in a 4’ square box with 3 roosts of space... what could go wrong? They were roosting on the coop floor, and under the coop, and getting knocked off the 2-3’ of “free” roosting space! Rather than find out how badly this could go, we relocated the young girls. Tonight it was much the same for me, except I managed to lure about half the girls into the correct tractor with scratch and trap them there while I relocated the more persistent ones.
They were really crammed in there. 
